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Vol. 113, No. 209 75 Cents Iola, KS

Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

At the bandstand Jim Garner, directorThursday, July 7, 2011 8 p.m.

PROGRAMStar Spangled Banner ..................................................arr. J.P. SousaAmericans We — march .......................................... Henry FillmoreRock, Rhythm and Blues — medley ......................arr. Jack BullockArmy of the Nile — march ...................................Kenneth J. AlfordBegin of the Beguine ...................................................... Cole PorterInvercargill — march ...................................................Alex LithgowHymn to the Fallen.................................... John Williams/SweeneyMen of Ohio — march ............................................. Henry FillmoreA Sixties Time Capsule — medley .............................. arr. JenningsThe Washington Post — march ...................................John P. Sousa

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

Register/Richard LukenMules Pat and Pete pull an antique sickle bar mower piloted by Ray Whiteley of Le Roy. Whiteley was joined by Greg Gleue in cutting an 18-acre prairie hay field Tuesday.

By SUSAN LYNNsusan@iolaregister.com

If you’ve got enough of it, Fri-day night is the night to let your hair down.

One sure test is to participate in the “Drag Race” as a runup to the Charlie Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life race.

Men and women alike are en-couraged to dress in a cross-gen-der manner and then “compete” in teams of four in a relay. Last

year a woman’s garter was trans-ferred from one participant’s leg to another.

“It’s better than a baton,” said David Toland, executive director of Thrive Allen County and one of the organizers for Friday’s events.

If you don’t have a thing to wear — no worries.

Dresses, hats, purses, jewelry and other accoutrements will be available at Elizabeth Donnelly’s

The Shirt Shop, 20 W. Jackson, where participants will have a wide selection from which to choose. Doors open at 10 p.m.

Registration to participate in the drag race is $5. That also gains participants entrance to a 9:30 p.m. pre-party at the Thrive office, 12 W. Jackson. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Thrive office or Friday night on

By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

LE ROY — Unlike the mecha-nized behemoths of today, Ray Whiteley’s mowing outfit was considerably quieter.

His “engine” — a pair of 1,200-pound mules — needed only an occasional break from the sti-fling summer heat as Whiteley traversed his way around an 18-acre prairie hay meadow.

“It’s a little warm, so we’ve been taking it easy,” Whiteley said. “It’s our little hobby.”

The mules were pulling White-ley’s antique sickle bar mower, a small wagon with cutting bar

attached. The bar was triggered through a gear box engaged as its wheels roll.

With no mechanical engine to speak of, the only noise emanat-ing from his unit was from the teeth of the seven-foot cutting bar rotating back and forth.

Joining Whiteley was neighbor and friend Greg Gleue, with his own mowing outfit, another sick-le bar mower pulled by a pair of Percheron draft horses.

“We’re having some fun with it,” Whiteley joked. “Greg’s kind of a wimp about it. He needs a

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

Register/Susan LynnThese men are ready to leave their inhibitions at home as they participate in Friday night’s favorite race, the drag race. From left to right are Matt Skahan, Brian Wolfe, Nic Lohman, David Toland and Fred Heismeyer. The race begins at 10:30 p.m. on the courthouse square.

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

Calls to the 911 dispatch center average one almost every 10 min-utes.

And while that may sound a lit-tle slow, played out over 24 hours a day and every day of the year, the total comes to 55,000.

“That’s what we received last year,” Angie Murphy, dispatch center director, told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morn-ing.

The call total — she figures half or more are for true emer-gencies — wasn’t the point of her appearance, but the magnitude of the number captivated commis-sioners.

Murphy was before commis-sioners to request a 20 percent increase in the department’s bud-get for 2012, up $126,000 over this year’s $490,000.

The increase seemed pretty hefty. Murphy reasoned health insurance will cost an additional $50,000 and another $6,000 was expected for Kansas Public Em-

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

See EGO | Page B6

By JOE SNEVEjoe@iolaregister.com

When Brian Pekarek was hired as superintendent of the Iola school district in February, he saw an opportunity to “reinvigo-rate” USD 257.

With a focus on academic achievement and public transpar-ency, Pekarek hopes he can fur-ther success for the district and the more than 1,300 students rely-ing on it.

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

An anticipated field of a thou-sand runners and walkers, who will flee Iola’s downtown busi-ness district early Saturday as Charley Melvin did in 1905, can be thankful that Melvin chose to do his dastardly deed in the mid-dle of the night.

Had the event being commemo-rated occurred in mid-day, par-ticipants would battle oppressive heat and humidity, with both forecast at the upper end of the discomfort scale during daytime Friday and Saturday. As is, they will run and walk in somewhat more inviting temperatures pre-dicted for the low 70s by 12:26 a.m. Saturday.

The race — many walkers will be out for a stroll — will cap activ-ities that start late Friday after-noon and will go on throughout the evening. Included will be the much-awaited “drag race,” fea-turing some of the area’s finest men and women dressed in drag.

Chris Weiner at Thrive Allen County, co-sponsor with Allen County Crimestoppers for “The Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run for your Life,” said total of partic-ipants was approaching 450, with about 200 signed on for the 5-kilo-meter run. The walk will follow a 3-kilometer course.

“Registration, including prob-ably a fifth online, has really

picked up,” Weiner said Tuesday afternoon. As in the past, “we ex-pect a lot of people to sign up Fri-day night.”

Cost is $12 for the walk. Run-ners’ fees are $14 for youth to age 17, $20 for adults and $17 each for members of teams.

Runners in the third annual event will aim for best times of 15.40.06 for males and 20.44.78 for females, set last year.

Sticks of “Melvin Dy-No-Mite” will be awarded the first three places for males and females in each of five ages groups, 15 and under, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60 and 61 and over.

All participants will break from in front of the post office. Runners will follow a course that will take them on West to Wash-ington, then Jackson, Jefferson and East to Cottonwood. They

Temps for runlook inviting

See TEMPS | B6

Countyhearsbudgetrequests

ATLANTA (AP) — Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall knew about cheat-ing allegations on standardized tests but either ignored them or tried to hide them, according to a state investigation.

An 800-page report released Tuesday to The Associated Press by Gov. Nathan Deal’s office through an open records request shows several educators report-ed cheating in their schools. But the report says Hall, who won the national Superintendent of the Year award in 2009, and other administrators ignored those re-ports and sometimes retaliated against the whistleblowers.

The yearlong investigation shows educators at nearly four dozen Atlanta elementary and middle schools cheated on stan-dardized tests by helping stu-dents or changing the answers once exams were handed in.

The investigators also found a “culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation” in the school district over the cheating allegations, which led to educators lying about the cheating or destroying

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

Brian Pekarek, center, visits with Barb Geffert and Marcy Boring at the USD 257 board office.

Cheating scandal detailed

See CHEATING | Page A5See MOWING | Page A5See COUNTY | Page A5

See PEKAREK | Page A5

Vol. 114, No. 197 75 Cents Iola, KS

Vote Tuesday • Polls open 7 a.m. - 7 p.m.

(Editor’s note: An article in Sat-urday’s Register detailing candi-dates in Tuesday’s primary election failed to include information on Al-len County Sheriff hopeful Bryan Murphy and Allen County Com-mission candidate Tom Williams.)

Murphy campaign going strong

Bryan Murphy, who is running for sheriff, seems to be well on his way to election day.

He had a booth set up at the Al-len County Fair for the past week handing out per-sonalized prod-ucts suggesting to people to “vote Murphy.”

In previous weeks Murphy has been “knocking on doors, putting up signs, meeting people, I was even at the Melvin Run talking to people that night,” he said.

He has been doing “anything (he) can do,” according to Mur-phy, to get his name out to the community.

Murphy, Allen County under-sheriff, has found positive rein-forcement from the community.

Narcotics are still a high prior-ity. If elected, Murphy said he will continue to fight illegal drugs in the community.

Tuesday Murphy will know for sure the status of his position, but until then he will keep getting the word out about his candidacy.

Williams depends on the people

Tom Wil-liams knows his straightforward attitude can be ove r wh e l m i n g for some people.

Williams, Al-len County Sher-iff, and in the

Candidates ready for election day

Williams

Murphy

By TRACIE CONEAssociated Press

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — As demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables has increased, so too has the number of urban farmers markets sprouting up across the nation.

The U.S. Department of Ag-riculture will announce Friday

that the number of direct-sales markets has increased 9.6 per-cent in the past year, with Cali-fornia and New York leading the way.

“Farmers markets are a criti-cal ingredient to our nation’s food system,” USDA Deputy Sec-retary Kathleen Merrigan said. “These outlets provide benefits not only to the farmers looking for important income opportuni-

ties, but also to the communities looking for fresh, healthy foods.”

After 18 years of steady in-creases, the number of farmers markets across the country now registered with the USDA is 7,864. In 1994, there were 1,744.

Organizations such as Slow Food, founded in 1989 to counter fast-food, junk-food lifestyles, first ignited consumer demand

More farmers markets wanted

Register/Allison Tinn

Drum circle actionJefferson Elementary music teacher Karen Jesseph leads a drum-ming circle with fourth- and fifth-grade students at Thursday’s Farmers Market in Iola.

DROUGHT PERSISTS

Register/Bob JohnsonThis pond at the north edge of Iola and most others in the area are extremely low because of the ongoing drought.

Dry, hot weather becomes challenge By BOB JOHNSON

bob@iolaregister.comEach day it appears more like-

ly this year may challenge for be-ing the driest ever.

Already the summer is one of the hottest ever, with tempera-tures near or above 100 degrees multiple times.

Through today, 2012 rainfall has totaled 15.40 inches in Iola. The all-time drought record oc-curred in 1936, with 22.31 inches.

Hope may be found in that by early August in 1936, the total was 8.54 inches, nearly seven

inches less than this year.Also, it isn’t far from the flip

side of spring. During Septem-ber, October and November aver-age rainfall is 10.85 inches.

The drought has made farm-ing a frustrating exercise. Corn, which held much promise early in the season, has burned to a crisp and soybeans, while still green in most fields, have start-ed to lose leaves, a sign that their demise isn’t far off.

The corn harvest, such as it is, has started, with many fields making 20 or fewer — much few-

er in some cases — bushels per acre.

Pasture grass has gone dor-mant and most farmers are hav-ing to hay cattle. Ponds are low — some are dry — and streams and creeks quit running weeks ago.

The long-range forecast holds little promise for rain, but tem-peratures are forecast to start to cool a little after this week.

The only comparable years for drought recently were 29.62 inches in 2006 and 29.57 inches in 2000. Average annual rainfall for Iola is 37.74 inches.

Register/Jocelyn Sheets

State AA championsHoisting the 2012 Kansas American Legion AA State Baseball Championship trophy are members of Iola American Legion Post 15’s AA Indians. The Indians won the state title Sunday in Sabetha, beating Hays-TMP 6-2. Read about it on B1.

Bryan Murphy said today Jerry Daniels, Humboldt, would serve as his undersheriff, if he is elected sheriff.

Murphy, undersheriff under Sheriff Tom Williams, is seek-ing the Republican nomination for Allen County sheriff in Tues-day’s primary election. His oppo-nent is Jared Froggatte, a former deputy who farms west of Iola.

Tuesday’s winner will face Sky-ler Clark, an independent candi-date, on Election Day, Nov. 6.

Murphy said he was pleased

that Daniels, with his extensive background in law enforcement, had agreed “to join my team.”

Daniels, 44, was a Humboldt police officer for three years before a 17-year stint with the Kansas Highway Patrol, which included air patrol duties as a helicopter pilot. He also served as an Army helicopter pilot in Desert Storm and has worked as a medical flight pilot. He retired from the 891st Engineer Bat-talion, National Guard, after 21 years of service.

Murphy picks undersheriff

See CANDIDATES | Page A4

By ROB BURKETTrob@iolaregister.com

Another school year approach-es and with that come goals and aspirations for USD 257.

Brian Pekarek, superintendent of schools, has outlined some principles he intends to pursue this year.

“We have some plans that in-clude a lot of what we have been doing the last couple of years,” Pekarek said. “Things like be-ing careful with the funds we get.

With the budget there’s always a lot of choices you have to make.”

Among those choices are a va-riety of initiatives such as more technology in the classroom. This year students and faculty will explore a “tech-centric” cur-riculum. From elementary stu-dents using iPads to high school students bringing laptops to bear on their academic endeavors, the information age will impact the way they pursue their courses.

Goals for the new year

See USD 257 | Page A4

See MARKETS | Page A4

Shooting at Sikh temple By MIKE JOHNSON,

KAREN HERZOG and ANNYSA JOHNSON

Milwaukee Journal SentinelMILWAUKEE — Seven people

were killed and three were injured in shootings Sunday morning at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis.

Oak Creek police officers who responded to a 911 call about the shooting were helping a victim

when the shooter ambushed one of the officers, shooting the offi-cer multiple times.

A second Oak Creek officer re-turned fire, killing the shooter, Oak Creek Police Chief John Ed-wards said.

The wounded officer, described as at least a 20-year veteran of the

See SHOOTING | Page A4

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Tuesday, sunny. Highs near 100. Southeast winds around 5 mph.

Tuesday night, partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph becoming southwest after midnight.

Wednesday, partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds around 5 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.

Wednesday night, partly cloudy. Lows near 70.

Sunrise 6:30 a.m. Sunset 8:25 p.m.

TemperatureHigh yesterday 92Low last night 62High Saturday 106Low Saturday 69High Friday 98Low Friday 78

High a year ago 97Low a year ago 73

Precipitation24 hours ending 7 a.m. .03This month to date .06Total year to date 15.40Def. since Jan. 1 7.50

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TodayIola City Council 2013 budget hearing, 6 p.m., Iola Library.Kappa Alpha chapter of Phi Tau Omega sorority, business

meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Pizza Hut.Moran City Council, 7 p.m., Moran City Hall.Iola Community Theatre board meeting, 7:30 p.m., Warehouse

Theatre, 203 S. Jefferson Ave., open to public.

TuesdayAllen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County

Courthouse commissioners’ room.Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen Community College Student

Center meeting room.Knights of Columbus, 7 p.m., Knights of Columbus Room in the

St. John’s Parish Center.Allen County Historical Society Board of Directors meeting, 7

p.m., ACHS Museum, 20 S. Washington Ave.

WednesdayDirt Diggers Garden Club, 9:30 a.m., Dorothy Catron hostess.Prenatal classes, 6 p.m., Mary Ellen Stadler conference room

at Allen County Hospital, to register for session call Sharilyn Lamb at (620) 365-1054.

LaHarpe City Council meeting, 7 p.m., LaHarpe City Hall.Jones Hardy Post No. 385 American Legion and Auxiliary, 7

p.m., Post Home, Moran.Iola BPOE No. 569, 8 p.m., Elks Lodge.

ThursdayRotary Club, noon, The Greenery.Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. KS 880, Iola, 5 p.m. weigh-in,

5:30 meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church, 118 W. Jackson.Farmers Market, 5:30 p.m., southwest corner of Iola square.Allen Community College Board of Trustees meeting, 6 p.m.,

Student Center trustees’ meeting room at the college.

FridaySenior Citizens Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior

citizens center, 204 N. Jefferson.

SaturdayCancer Support Group, 10-11 a.m., Parish Hall at St. John’s

Catholic Church.

SundaySons of the American Legion meeting, 2:30 p.m., Post Home.

Aug. 13Iola City Council meeting, 6 p.m., New Community Building at

Riverside Park.USD 257 school board, 6:30 p.m., Iola High School lecture hall.Marmaton Valley USD 256 school board meeting, 7 p.m., dis-

trict office in Moran.Humboldt City Council, 7 p.m., Humboldt City Hall.USD 479 school board, 7 p.m., Crest board office in Colony.Allen County Chapter American Cancer Society, 7 p.m., confer-

ence room at Allen County Hospital.USD 258 school board meeting, 7:30 p.m., school board office

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney and the Republican National Com-mittee say they netted more than $101 million last month.

Romney’s presidential campaign says in a state-ment issued Monday that about 26 percent of the money raised in July came in donations of less than $250.

The campaign says Rom-ney, the RNC and state GOP parties have nearly $186 million in cash on hand.

Romney’s finance chair-man, Spencer Zwick, says Republicans are “well on track to raise the money to be successful in Novem-ber.”

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s prime minister defected and fled to neighboring Jordan, a Jordanian of-ficial and a rebel spokes-man said today, evidence that the cracks in Presi-dent Bashar Assad’s re-gime have reached the highest echelons of gov-ernment.

Ahmad Kassim, a se-nior official with the Free Syrian Army, said Prime Minister Riad Hi-jab defected to Jordan along with three other ministers.

A Jordanian govern-ment official confirmed Hijab defected with his family but did not com-ment on whether three other ministers had also come. The official spoke on condition of anonym-ity, saying he was not al-lowed to make any public statements on the defec-tion.

Hijab is the highest-level government official to defect since the upris-ing against Assad’s au-thoritarian rule began 17 months ago.

The other ministers’ identities were not im-mediately known and Syrian TV denied re-ports that Finance Min-ister Mohammad Jlailati had defected.

“The prime minister defected from the regime of killing, maiming and terrorism. He considers himself a soldier in the revolution,” Mohammad Otari, Hijab’s spokes-man, told The Associated Press in Amman, Jordan.

Assad’s regime has suffered a series of sig-nificant setbacks over the past month that point to a loosening of its grip on the country.

Four of the president’s top security aides were killed in a rebel bombing of state security head-quarters in the capital Damascus on July 18, in-cluding the defense min-ister and Assad’s brother in law.

There has been a steady stream of high-level defections from diplomats to generals in recent weeks. And the re-gime has been unable to fully subdue rebel chal-lenges in the two major cities, Damascus and Aleppo.

Hijab’s defection comes less than two months after he was appointed to the post, which is largely sym-bolic in Syria where the president and a tight co-terie of advisers hold the real power.

Otari said Hijab, who hails from Syria’s east-ern province of Deir el-Zour, planned his de-fection for more than two months, and began the planning as soon as he was appointed prime minister.

He declined to confirm that the premier was in Jordan now, but said Hi-jab was in a “safe place” along with his family and seven brothers, in-cluding two who held top government posts at the ministries of oil and en-vironment.

Syrian primeminister defects

Romney raises $101 million

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Europe not only has a debt problem that keeps many of its member countries teetering on the brink of full-fledged de-pression, it also suffers from a lack of babies.

Yes, babies. The fertility rates in 11 of the 15 countries that have reported their statis-tics for 2011 have fallen.

The replacement fertility rate is 2.1. This means that the women in a nation must av-erage 2.1 births during their lifetimes in order to keep the population stable. When the fertility rate falls, populations decline.

A low fertility rate can be offset by immigration, as has happened in England, several European counties and the U.S.

But other factors also impact the demographic picture. The drop in fertility in Europe, for example, has been affected by the recession. Statistics show that as youth unemployment rises, the number of marriages and new man-woman partner-ships falls. Fertility rates fol-low a similar pattern. Not only are there fewer marriages in the population, but when jobs dry up, immigration slows and, in some nations, some-times goes into reverse.

Spain, for example, has seen many of its recent immigrants return to their native countries because they couldn’t make it in Spain. In the U.S. immigra-tion from Mexico and Central America has slowed dramati-cally due to the U.S. recession and the crack-down on illegals.

Because immigrants tend to be young and to come from cul-tures where the fertility rate is above rich world levels for a combination of reasons, when immigration slows or reverses the affect on a nation’s fertility rate can be dramatic. In Spain,

for example, the rate fell from 1.46 in 2008 to around 1.38 in 2011. Unemployment in Spain has been in the high teens or low 20s through those years.

LOW FERTILITY rates have grave long-term effects. Fewer babies mean a smaller work force. Fewer workers in soci-eties such as ours and those in Europe and industrialized Asia translates into lower tax revenues for the retirement and health care programs for seniors.

Paradoxically, those nations which have been most gener-ous to their retired popula-tions come under the greatest fiscal and political pressures when the revenues shrink upon which those programs depend.

How should governments react to this challenge? What policies can be put in place to encourage marriage and child-bearing? Free child care, paid parental leave, tax incen-tives are among them. Nations such as the U.S. also can adopt immigration policies to keep their work force growing — but those only are effective when the economy is expanding. At the other end of the equation, programs for the retired seg-ment of the population can be cut back to fit the shrinking tax revenues.

All of these remedies will require action by government, which will be resisted by those who must pay more or receive less — and the prospects for that are dim. In Europe and, goodness only knows, in the U.S., the formula for persuad-ing democratic governments to tackle and solve substantial social and fiscal problems has yet to be found.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Lack of babiesposes problems

With the primary election just a day away, have you decided who you would choose to vote for you?

The question is directed to that 80 percent of the registered voters who are expected to sit on their hands Tuesday and let the 20 percent who take democracy seri-ously speak for them.

Who says only 20 percent will vote? Secretary of State Kris Ko-bach, that’s who. The same guy who persuaded the Legislature to require would-be voters to bring a government-issued photo iden-tification document, such as a passport or a driver’s license, to the polls with them, which will frustrate a certain number of Kansas who don’t drive and never received a passport.

Kobach’s barrier — which is designed to help Republican can-didates — will keep the voting percentage even lower.

But that won’t be the main problem, which is that the vast

majority of Americans don’t take their political responsibilities se-riously; don’t learn about the can-didates; don’t research the issues; don’t vote.

The slackers — that’s the 80 percent Mr. Kobach has identified — turn over power of the bal-lot box to the voting few. The one who votes makes the politi-cal decisions for the four who don’t.

And because those who are politically active do vote, elec-tion results are skewed in their favor.

Now, which single-issue wing-nut will speak for you for the next two and four years?

Or will you represent your-self, dear reader, and cast your own reasonable, thoughtful, well-informed vote tomorrow? It is, after all, your duty — to dust off a nearly-forgotten, old-fashioned word. So do it.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

When each votecounts for five

To the editor:From my bed in Allen County

Hospital: It is so important for us to elect the proper people that I am compelled to write from here.

The person for the position of state representative, District 9, is Ed Bideau.

He is honest, unshakable in his beliefs and will be a credit to us all.

Ed has served in the Legisla-ture, which gives him a step up. From his experience he knows how to get things done in the Kansas House. He can hit the door running.

I served with Ed and I am happy to endorse Ed Bideau for state representative.

Denise Apt,former state representative,

Iola, Kan.

Letter to the editor

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Conser-vative Republicans hope Tues-day’s primary in Kansas gives them control of the state Senate, where moderate GOP leaders have checked the right’s ambi-tions for cutting taxes, shrinking government and rewriting social policy.

The Kansas Chamber of Com-merce, long influential in GOP politics, and the anti-tax, small-government group Americans for Prosperity have backed conserva-tives in their quest for control. Moderates are getting help from the state’s largest teachers’ union and even some labor organiza-tions traditionally aligned with Democrats.

Two years ago, frustration with Democratic President Barack Obama in GOP-leaning Kansas and the tea party movement shat-tered a bipartisan coalition in the state House that had helped Dem-ocratic Govs. Kathleen Sebelius and Mark Parkinson. But all 40 Senate seats weren’t on the ballot until this year, leaving a similar coalition in place there to hinder conservatives.

Despite Gov. Sam Brownback’s election in 2010 — and his policy successes, particularly on tax cuts — some other conservatives still see Kansas as lagging. They want Kansas to do more to lessen the political influence of unions, overhaul public pensions and give parents more alternatives to public schools.

“This is a red state, right?” said anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, president of the Washington-based Americans for Tax Reform. “It’s like the slow class.”

That could change after Tues-day. There are contested prima-ries in 21 of the 40 Senate districts, and all but two of the races are on the Republican side. A dozen moderate incumbents face chal-lengers from the right, including Senate President Steve Morris, of Hugoton, giving conservatives

a good chance of finishing the sweep started in 2010.

“There is a concerted effort to eliminate traditional Republi-can senators in favor of more tea party-style senators,” said Sen-ate Majority Leader Jay Emler, a moderate from Lindsborg.

Most of the moderates facing conservative challengers voted in 2010, at Parkinson’s urging, to increase the state’s sales tax to help balance the state budget. They also resisted Brownback’s successful push this year to cut income taxes.

“If you go back to elections in 2010, we can say voters clearly expressed that they wanted con-servative policies,” said Rep. Joe Patton, a conservative who’s try-ing to unseat moderate Sen. Vicki Schmidt in a Topeka primary. “What we’re seeing now is just the same dynamic.”

Patton raised a healthy $56,000 for his campaign through late July, but Schmidt raised more than $200,000. Attacked as too liberal, she aired television ads invoking Ronald Reagan and highlighted an endorsement by former U.S. Senate Majority Lead-er and GOP icon Bob Dole. She noted that lawmakers who raised the sales tax also made significant spending cuts during the Great Recession.

“We’ve done what we needed to do to fund essential services and balance the budget,” she said.

Some of the moderate incum-bents are critical of the aggres-sive tax package enacted this year. It cuts individual income tax rates for next year and exempts the owners of 191,000 partner-

ships, sole proprietorships and other businesses from income taxes. Legislative researchers have projected that budget short-falls will emerge by mid-2014, but Brownback and his allies argue the cuts will spur the economy, heading off problems.

GOP moderates also have helped block legislation dealing with unions, giving the governor more power over appellate court appointments and preventing even indirect taxpayer financing for abortions. All would be far more likely to pass if conserva-tives controlled the Senate.

“I just got frustrated with the Senate being the bottleneck,” said Jeff Melcher, a conservative Leawood Republican who’s run-ning for the seat of retiring mod-erate Sen. John Vratil. “It just seemed like any piece of legisla-tion went to the Senate to die.”

Melcher, the CEO of a comput-er services company, also serves on the board of the Kansas Cham-ber. GOP moderates note that Koch Industries Inc., the Wichita-based company run by conserva-tive political donor Charles Koch, was the biggest contributor to the chamber’s political action com-mittee in the past 18 months, giv-ing more than $161,000, almost a third of the cash raised by the PAC through Friday.

“What he’s really saying is that he simply wants to rubber stamp this ultra-right agenda,” said Rep. Pat Colloton, of Leawood, the GOP moderate seeking Vratil’s seat.

Conservatives seek primary boostJohnHannaAn AP news analysis

This is a red state, right? It’s like the slow class.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A trio of female firsts and three former GOP presidential contenders are among the first speakers dis-closed for August’s Republican National Convention.

They will speak ahead of Mitt Romney’s formal acceptance of his party’s presidential nomina-tion.

Convention leaders were not ready to announce the keynote speaker, a prime speaking slot that has the potential to catapult a rising member of the party to national prominence.

The schedule’s outlines were first reported by The Tampa Bay Times late Sunday and were con-firmed to The Associated Press by Republican officials with direct knowledge of the plan. The of-ficials spoke on the condition of anonymity because convention officials had not yet announced the schedule.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Hal-

ey and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, the first female gover-nors of their states, are among party leaders slated to address the gathering that begins Aug. 27. Martinez has the additional distinction of being the first fe-male Hispanic governor in the country.

Former Secretary of State

Condoleezza Rice, the first black female to hold that job, is also scheduled to speak.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona will speak, as well as a one-time rival, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Republicans are holding back on announcing other speakers, including the keynote speaker.

GOP convention speakers announced

An advertisement in Satur-day’s Register touting Bud Sifers’ candidacy for the Kansas House of Representatives referred to how much the Iola’s budget grew under former City Administra-tor Judy Brigham’s “tenure” with the city.

Budgets were approved by the former Iola City Commis-sion, not Brigham, although she helped shape the spending plans.

Sifers, Brigham and Ed Bide-au of Chanute are facing off in Tuesday’s Republican primary election.

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Another part of the tech agenda will be a new teach-er lanyard audio system. Brett Lynn, technology director for USD 257, said more classrooms will be equipped with the system that will allow teachers to get their messages across clearly.

“The system is designed to amplify the teacher’s voice in the classroom,” Lynn said. “We had some of these already installed so we know what to expect. It’s going to help students more clearly understand what the teacher is saying and also help teachers save their voices as well since they’re talking all day. They won’t have to raise their voices as much.”

The district also is focus-ing on hiring new staff as well as further professional

development of existing staff. To that end, there will be a new hire orientation Friday at Iola High School to bring people into the cul-ture of USD 257.

“It’ll be a good opportu-nity to get to know some people and get everyone ex-cited about the year,” Pek-arek said. “We’ll hopefully be able to start the year off right.”

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department, was in surgery Sunday afternoon and was expected to survive, Ed-wards said at a news con-ference.

Of those killed, four of the dead were inside the temple in the Milwaukee suburb and three, includ-ing the shooter, were out-side.

Shortly after 5 p.m., neighbors said a team of law enforcement officers, including from the Milwau-kee County Sheriff ’s De-partment and the U.S. Bu-reau of Alcohol, Tobacco

and Firearms, had entered a home in Cudahy, about six miles south of Oak Creek.

Police cordoned off a block near downtown Cu-dahy.

It was unclear whose home it is and how the search may be related to the shootings.

At the temple shooting scene, a police SWAT team entered the building before noon and brought unin-jured people out.

Edwards said the build-ing is secure and tactical of-ficers were standing down. He said the officers who ar-

rived on the scene “stopped a tragedy that could have been a lot worse.”

Edwards said he could not release any informa-tion on the shooter, includ-ing what the shooter was wearing, saying there are “multiple reports” of dif-ferent things. He said there were multiple weapons at the scene, but did not say how many or what variety.

Names of the victims also were not being re-leased.

Officials indicated that no more information would be released until a brief-

ing today. They said the FBI will lead the investi-gation. Authorities said there was no indication of a second shooter.

for fresh, local produce.“My husband and I prefer

to eat locally and organical-ly,” said Tracy Stuntz, a col-lege instructor who shops at Fresno’s Vineyard Farmer’s Market. “You go to the gro-cery store and everything is the same. The farmer’s mar-ket has yellow zucchini and green onions that are like a foot long. Produce you don’t see other places.”

Today, some markets are so popular that there are wait lists for farmers to sell there, including one of the largest and most diverse of all, the Ferry Plaza Farm-ers Market in San Fran-cisco. Farmers from across the region travel there three days a week to sell

fruits, vegetables and arti-san breads and cheeses to thousands of shoppers, in-cluding top chefs from the food-centric city.

Operated by the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture, the iconic market on the San Francisco Bay is cel-ebrating its 20th birthday.

“When we started there were only three markets in the city, and now there are 29,” said Liz Hunt, a center spokeswoman.

Grant Brians of Heir-

loom Organic Gardens sells more than 200 old-fashioned varieties of veg-etables, herbs and fruit grown on two farms in San Benito County, about 100 miles south of San Fran-cisco. Others bring in stone fruits from the San Joaquin Valley, and berries from the coast.

Dave Stockdale, the cen-ter’s executive director, said farmers markets em-power consumers to be-come active supporters of their communities.

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race for county commis-sioner against Rob Fran-cis, has heard mixed re-views from citizens about his race for commissioner.

“A lot of people have come up to me and said they are glad I am running,” he said. “On the same token, I have had people say they are not so glad.”

However, in Williams’ line of work he has to be tough-skinned and com-ments like that do not bother him, he said.

He is aware of the com-munity’s concerns and hopes to become commis-

sioner to help alleviate some of the stress.

“People are concerned about the overall climate, and that is understand-able,” he said. “If I be-come commissioner I will try to be as cost-effective and budget-minded as pos-sible.”

Williams has always felt humbled whenever anyone has ever voted for him in the past and would be hum-bled again if people voted for him in this race, he said.

“I just depend on people to make good choices,” Williams said.

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By ALICIA CHANGAssociated Press

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — In a show of technological wizardry, the robotic explorer Curiosity blazed through the pink skies of Mars, steering itself to a gentle landing in-side a giant crater for the most ambitious dig yet into the red planet’s past.

Cheers and applause echoed through the NASA Jet Propul-sion Laboratory late Sunday after the most high-tech in-terplanetary rover ever built signaled it had survived a har-rowing plunge through the thin Mars atmosphere.

“Touchdown confirmed,” said engineer Allen Chen. “We’re safe on Mars.”

Minutes after the landing

signal reached Earth at 10:32 p.m. PDT, Curiosity beamed back the first black-and-white pictures from inside the cra-ter showing its wheel and its shadow, cast by the afternoon sun.

“We landed in a nice flat spot. Beautiful, really beau-tiful,” said engineer Adam Steltzner, who led the team that devised the tricky landing routine.

It was NASA’s seventh land-ing on Earth’s neighbor; many other attempts by the U.S. and other countries to zip past, cir-cle or set down on Mars have gone awry.

The arrival was an engi-neering tour de force, debut-ing never-before-tried acro-batics packed into “seven

minutes of terror” as Curios-ity sliced through the Martian atmosphere at 13,000 mph.

In a Hollywood-style finish, cables delicately lowered the rover to the ground at a snail-paced 2 mph. A video camera was set to capture the most dramatic moments — which would give Earthlings their first glimpse of a touchdown on another world.

Celebrations by the mission team were so joyous over the next hour that JPL Director Charles Elachi had to plead for calm in order to hold a post-landing press conference. He compared the team to athletic teams that participate in the Olympics.

“This team came back with the gold,” he said.

NASA rover Curiosity lands on Mars

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SABETHA — They started at 8. Now, they’ve won state.

In a winner-take-all game on a picture-perfect Sunday morning, the 2012 Kansas American Legion AA Baseball State Championship was decided. On Somerset Park’s “field of dreams” in Sabetha, Iola AA Indians realized their dream.

The AA Indians defeated Hays-TMP Monarchs 6-2 Sunday to cap-ture the state championship that eluded them a year ago. In their second straight AA state baseball tournament, the Indians faced the Monarchs three times in three days to win the title.

“Perfect,” was Jerrik Sigg’s one word to describe the Indians’ championship run. Sigg earned the state tournament’s batting ti-tle, going 9 of 18 in the team’s five tournament games. Sigg also was 2-1 on the mound, including two compete games.

“Dalton Smith came out and threw a heck of a game. He pound-ed the strike zone the whole game which was huge,” Sigg said. “Dal-ton kept the ball at the knees (of the batters) and let our defense

work. Our whole defense was out-standing,”

Most of the players on the AA Indians have been playing togeth-er since they were 8 years old. Smith, who is a 2011 Yates Center High graduate, joined the group a bit later but has played on Iola teams for several years.

Smith got the starting nod from AA Indians’ head coach Mike Taylor for Sunday’s contest. The right-hander went the distance on the hill for the Indians, throwing a two-hitter. He walked one and hit one batter.

Smith struck out four Hays batters. He and the Iola defense retired the Monarchs in order in five of the seven innings, which included the last two frames.

The 2012 AA Indians handed Iola Leslie J. Campbell Post 15 its second AA championship. The other state championship was in 1988. Iola went to the 1983 and 1984 state tournament, finishing second in 1984 with Coach Taylor on the team as a player.

“It’s about time,” Coach Taylor said smiling. “We’ve played a lot of games like this and came up short over the years at different

levels.“I knew I was going to start Dal-

ton by Thursday. On Friday night against Hays, I couldn’t make any right decisions and we still won, then Saturday we made a lot of good decisions and we didn’t play well.

“Today we played about as a perfect of a game as we can. Our defense is pretty good.”

It was Smith who got the offense started for Iola. He found himself all the way at second base when his high pop-up in the infield fell between Hays’ third baseman and pitcher.

Smith stole third and an errant throw on the play allowed him to score the game’s first run.

Iola struck for four runs in the third. Sigg drew a one-out walk and Drew Walden singled. The runners moved up on a wild pitch and a passed ball. Smith connected for a two-run single to center field.

Mason Coons worked a two-out walk and Braden Larson drove in two runs on a double. Iola added another run in the fourth when Sigg walked with two gone and Walden tripled.

Hays was able to produce a run in the fourth. Smith hit a batter and walked a batter in the inning.

“(Coach Taylor) told me to calm down and pitch the game I came to pitch,” Smith said. “We’ve worked all our lives for this mo-ment and it just amazing.”

After the visit to the mound, Smith gave up a sacrifice fly to Ja-cob Fouts for an RBI then struck out Dylan Goltschalk to end the threat.

Iola was up 6-1. A fielding error and a throwing error by the Indi-ans in the fifth allowed a second Hays run to cross the plate.

That was it. Smith and the Indi-ans retired the next six batters to win the game.

“We’ve worked hard for it. I was just out doing my job,” said Kris Collins, who had a pinch hit in Saturday’s 5-3 loss to Hays. “I kept telling the guys we know we can do it.”

In Sunday’s game, Walden hit a single and a triple and Larson sin-gled and doubled. Smith had two singles while Jarred Latta and Levi Ashmore each had a single.

Ashmore made several strong plays at shortstop for the Indians.

“When we had the comeback in that last inning on Saturday, it gave us some momentum coming into today’s game,” Ashmore. “We came out today and scored some runs ear-ly and never looked back.”

Second baseman Clint Heffern said the Indians had a little bit of a reality check losing Saturday’s first championship game.

“It focused us and got us more together. We got after it right from

the beginning today,” Heffern said. “We knew we wanted to do something special.”

S o m e t h i n g special is go-ing 41-4 and winning a state c h a m p i o n -ship. Iola lost three games to Osawato-mie and one to Hays-TMP.

In the state t o u r n a m e n t , the Indians de-railed Pratt’s quest for a third straight state championship. Hays finished Pratt off in the losers bracket final Saturday, winning 2-1.

Iola rallied to beat Hays 8-6 in nine innings Friday night in the winners bracket finale.

“In the first inning, we knew it was something we could do today,” Walden said. “We came out today with a lot of energy. This is something we’ve worked a lot of years to get.”

Birthday boy Corey Taylor said he was disappointed that he didn’t get a hit Sunday. Taylor hit the ball hard twice but right at de-fenders.

“What a great way to celebrate a birthday. I made up for not hit-ting with a strong defensive play,”

Taylor said, grinning.“This is the best feeling. It is

the best day of our lives to be out here together and accomplish this,” said Devon Conner.

So what’s next?The Indians qualified for the

American Legion Mid-States Re-gional. That starts Thursday in Wahpeton, N.D.

More on Iola’s final three games in the 2012 state tournament will be in Tuesday’s Register.

With all their hardware, Iola American Legion Post 15’s Indians line up as 2012 Kansas American Legion AA State Baseball Tournament champions. Joining the team on the field Sunday in Sabetha are Dick Perkins with the No. 1 raised the highest way in the back and Steve Conger, both associated with Iola American Legion’s baseball program. Members of the team are, left to right, front row, bat boys Noah and Blake Ashmore, Trent Latta, Dalton Smith, Clint Heffern, Levi Ashmore, Devon Conner; middle row, Jerrik Sigg, Jarred Latta, Drew Walden, Mason Coons, Braden Larson, Kris Collins, Corey Taylor, Aaron Barclay, coach Roger Collins; back row, coach Mike Taylor, coach Adam Eisenbart, Perkins and Conger.

Iola AA Indians are 2012 state champs

Drew Walden, Iola AA Indians’ catcher, sends a pitch deep for a triple to drive in a run in Sunday’s championship game at the 2012 Kansas American Legion AA State Tournament.

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Dalton Smith delivers a pitch during Iola AA Indians’ championship game at the 2012 Kansas American Legion AA state tournament in Sabetha Sunday. Smith went the distance and Iola beat Hays-TMP 6-2 for the title.

Making the throw at shortstop is Iola AA Indians’ Levi Ashmore in Sunday’s state championship game in Sabetha.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police say a man they thought was posing as a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper during a weekend traffic stop was really an off-duty Sedgwick County sheriff ’s deputy.

Police spokesman Sgt. Scott Brunow told The Wichita Eagle Sunday he had no other details about what happened at 1 a.m. Saturday.

A city officer thought he had come upon a routine traffic stop by the Highway Patrol and pulled up behind what looked like an un-marked state trooper’s car to provide backup.

The officer conducting the traffic stop bolted back to his car, flipped on his lights and sirens and sped away. The woman he had stopped also drove away.

Afterward, the police de-partment issued a warning about a fake, heavyset pa-trolman wearing a loose-fit-ting uniform making traffic stops.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Aircraft maker Airbus is reaching out to Kansas aviation suppliers with a Wichita event called the Air Capital Supplier Summit.

Today’s event is hosted by U.S. Sen. Jerry Mo-ran and Airbus Americas chairman Allan McArtor. It comes just months after the aircraft maker’s big-gest competitor, Boeing, an-nounced plans to close its defense plant in Wichita.

The conference is de-signed to increase business between Kansas companies and Airbus. More than 200 representatives from about 90 companies are expected to meet with Airbus repre-sentatives at the National Center for Aviation Train-ing.

The Kansas aerospace in-dustry encompasses more than 450 companies and ac-counts for more than 32,000 direct jobs. Airbus has an engineering center in Wich-ita where it employs more than 350 people.

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Courtney Sczuka, 16, and Chantal Catron, 16, both of Iola, were taken to Al-len County Hospital Friday morning following a one-car wreck in LaHarpe.

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Dear Dr. Donohue: I have been diagnosed with inappropriate antidiuretic hormone and have been told to restrict my fluid intake to 1.5 liters (1.59 quarts) per day. What causes this syndrome? What are the short- and long-term consequences? Do I count foods prepared with liquids, such as oat-meal? — G.H.

Answer: Most people have never heard of an-tidiuretic hormone, also called vasopressin or argi-nine vasopressin. It comes from the pituitary gland at the base of the brain. It preserves body-fluid bal-ance by regulating urine volume. If the body is low on fluids, ADH secretion diminishes urine produc-tion, and body fluid levels rise. If the body has too much fluid, ADH produc-tion drops off, urine out-put increases and body fluid levels drop.

Inappropriate ADH is the situation where the body has more than enough fluid, but ADH secretion continues, and body fluid reaches high levels. Urine production has been shut down. The expansion of body water dilutes the blood sodium concentration. Low sodi-um leads to headache, con-fusion, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and, in extreme cases, coma. With proper treatment, long-term consequences are minimal and few.

Causes of the syndrome include lung, ovary and pancreatic cancer; multi-

ple sclerosis; neuropathy; some medicines; infections such as pneumonia, tuber-culosis and meningitis; strokes; congestive heart failure; and severe diges-tive-tract inflammation. These are common illness-es, making inappropriate ADH common. As with all illness, sometimes a cause cannot be found.

A reduction of fluid in-take is the first step in treat-ment. If you’re not making progress, shown by a rise in blood sodium, then you have to adopt stricter fluid restriction. Measure you urine output for 24 hours. Your intake should be 16.9 ounces, about 2 cups less than that amount. Even the most solid of solid food has fluid in it. You don’t have to consider that amount of flu-id or the fluid in a stew. You should in foods like soups.

If fluid restriction isn’t improving the blood so-

dium level, medicines can be used. Demeclocycline is one. Tolvaptan is another. Most importantly, treat-ment of the underlying cause is the best approach, if an underlying cause has been found.

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Dear Carolyn: “Mike” and I met online in Decem-ber 2010. He is a 40-some-thing, divorced, childless physician and educator. I am a 30-something project man-ager. We are both indepen-dent and love our jobs. I also share custody of a 6-year-old son with my ex-husband.

My relationship with Mike was great, although sometimes I wanted more time together. We took a few short trips together, where I accompanied him to his con-ferences.

This fall I got pregnant. We were both in shock.

We had already agreed that we both want kids one day. However, Mike said his wife divorced him because he was not ready to have children and she thought he never would be. (He felt she was wrong and had other motives.)

I have come to rejoice in my new reality. He is still not quite comfortable with the prospect of a child, and he said last night he was

not even ready to move in together. Not even when the baby is born. He is not say-ing he won’t be ready later.

Maybe I should add that my son can be a handful. But, Mike is so good with him. Very attentive, thought-ful, affectionate and sweet. He says he is happy with how things are going but feels that moving in together would be confining to his life.

I am struggling to un-derstand this. I feel like he should take responsi-bility, step up and plan to help with the baby. He says he is not going any-where but could picture us raising the baby in sep-arate households. I feel

that if he truly loved me he would find a way to ac-cept this inconvenience. I feel humiliated, as if I were not worthy of his commitment.

How can I make a decision that I won’t regret later? I am afraid waiting will only make an eventual separation and disappointment more painful. — K.

Answer: The more you make this about you, the less you’ll understand that this is about him.

It’s tempting to make the whole answer about his “confining to his life” howl-er — my first draft was — in part because his treating conferences as dates sup-ports a self-absorption diag-nosis.

But he’s attentive and thoughtful with your son, he’s honest with you, he’s planning to raise his child, he shows signs of aver-sion to change. Meanwhile, you’ve known each other for a year, and making a baby doesn’t convey instant readi-

ness to head a happy family together.

The combination points to a cautious man, one who barely managed to wedge you into his independent ways, facing a baby. It has temporarily flooded his sys-tem.

This would be a huge in-dictment if he fled, but he hasn’t. He’s staying, and try-ing. Of course you’d prefer rejoicing, house-hunting and declarations of love, but he’s not that guy. He can only adjust his way, and at his speed — which is to ba-by-step (sorry) into it and to narrate each step for you, to make sure you know where he stands.

I can’t picture it as a Har-lequin cover, but as long as he keeps up the transpar-ency and dedication to doing what’s right, please accept who he is and give him room to move at his pace. It’s not as if the alternatives — dump-ing him preemptively or forcing his hand — hold the promise of anything great.

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Bolt, Richards-Ross strike gold on trackLONDON (AP) — Us-

ain Bolt seized the 100-me-ter Olympic gold Sunday night, delighting fans as he set a new Olympic record and celebrated with half a victory lap around the jam-packed stadium.

The day after the host na-tion won six gold medals, including three in one hour in track and field, Andy Murray and sailor Ben Ain-slie kept the British gold medals flowing.

There were some disap-pointments, too.

Double-amputee runner Oscar Pistorius did not qualify for the 400-meter final, finishing last in his semifinal heat. The historic relevance of the moment was not lost on his competi-tors, however. World cham-pion Kirani James walked over to Pistorius — the first amputee to compete in track at the Olympics — immediately after the race and asked for his name bib as a souvenir.

The South African is still expected to run the 4x400 relays, which start Thurs-day. Last year, Pistorius won the silver at the world championships.

Bolt’s victory in the packed 80,000-seat stadium marked one of the defin-ing moments of the Lon-don Games. He ran in 9.63 seconds, just ahead of his training partner and fellow Jamaican, Yohan Blake, who came in second at 9.75. American Justin Gatlin took bronze in 9.79.

Bolt fell shy of his world record of 9.58 seconds but improved on the 9.69 he ran four years ago in Beijing to enter his name, once again, in the Olympic record book.

In the night’s other races in the main stadium, Sanya Richards-Ross of the Unit-ed States won Olympic gold medal in women’s 400 me-ters, and Ezekiel Kemboi of Kenya took the Olym-

pic gold medal in men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase.

Olga Rypakova of Ka-zakhstan won the women’s triple jump.

Earlier, Murray beat Roger Federer for the men’s singles tennis gold, gaining a measure of revenge for the Wimbledon final he lost on the same Wimbledon court to the Swiss star a month ago.

And he didn’t mess around, dominating a list-less Federer 6-2, 6-1, 6-4, winning nine consecutive games at one stage and breaking the seven-time Wimbledon champion’s serve four times in a row.

“It was the biggest win of my life,” said an emotional Murray. “I’ve had a lot of tough losses in my career. This is the best way to come back from the Wimbledon final. I’ll never forget it.”

The Scotsman couldn’t add to the British gold med-al total when he and Laura Robson lined up in the mixed doubles final. The golds went to Max Mirnyi

and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, who won 2-6, 6-3, 10-8 to leave the British pair with silver medals.

The two new golds Sunday gave Britain 16 — eight over the weekend. That was good enough for third place in the

gold medal race behind the United States and China.

On Saturday, heptathlete and national poster girl Jessica Ennis, long jump-er Greg Rutherford and 10,000-meter runner Mo Farah won their events one after the other in a packed main stadium as part of the British gold onslaught.

In an earlier match at Wim-bledon, Serena and Venus Wil-liams won the women’s dou-bles tennis title, becoming the first tennis players to win four Olympic gold medals. They de-fended their Beijing 2008 dou-bles title with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic.

Serena made it a perfect Olympics, playing under the roof on a rainy afternoon at the All England Club a day after she dominated Maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 for singles gold. She joined Steffi Graf as the only women to com-plete the Golden Slam — win-ning the Olympics and the four majors.

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Sanya Richards-Ross of the USA celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women’s 400m race Sunday at Olympic Stadium during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, England.

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt pulls ahead over USA’s Ryan Bailey, left, and Justin Gatlin to win the gold medal in Sunday’s 100-meter sprint during the Summer Olympic Games in London, England.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Given where the Kan-sas City Royals are, manag-er Ned Yost will savor any victory.

Errors by Alberto Gonza-lez and Mike Olt in a three-pitch span allowed the tie-breaking run to score in the 10th inning Sunday, giving the Royals a 7-6 victory over the Texas Rangers.

“Ugly, come on. How can you call that game ugly?” Yost said. “It’s a beautiful win. Against a team of that caliber and as hard fought as this series was and for us to come up with nothing go-ing into today, it’s a beauti-ful win.”

With the score 6-6, Mi-chael Kirkman (0-2) walked Billy Butler leading off the 10th. Gonzalez, who entered in the ninth when Elvis An-drus left because of a sore shoulder, booted a routine grounder by Salvador Perez as pinch-runner Eric Hos-mer advanced,

Jeff Francoeur took a ball and then grounded to third. Olt, who made his major league debut Thurs-day, threw the ball into right field as Hosmer came home.

Kansas City, with the poorest record in the AL, improved to 45-62.

Royalswin ugly

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Garrett Reid, the troubled 29-year-old son of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid, was found dead Sunday in a dorm room at the club’s Lehigh Uni-versity training camp, where he spends most of his sum-mers with his father.

Police said the death was not suspicious, and the cause was under investigation. The coach’s oldest son had a long history of drug problems.

Eagles coach’sson dies